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Well a few weeks went by, I passed courier school and now just learning my route.. The Friday before a 3 day weekend my mgr Mikey comes to me and says hey would you like to work Saturday and do pickups it would be good for you to learn the city and so an so would like the day off for his kids what do you say..I say OK what the hell right Ill help someone out and learn while I was at it..

Once again I asked just this one part of the city right ? she says yea sure, OK its a plan

Well I come in grab my courier van and my equipment and off I went, at first everything was fine then after two hours I get hammered with pick ups all over the place after a while I call dispatch and say I’m only supposed to do this area.. He laughs a lil and says who told you that ? I said Mikey he laughs again any Say’s she’s not even a Saturday manager and misinformed you..He Say’s Ill help you the best I can but your on your own there is only one other courier out there and he’s doing the other city..

So 12 hours and 100 miles later, no break,no lunch I get done and back to the building very very very late for a Saturday an a lil help from the other courier it gets done and I go home..

I come back on Tuesday and Mikey says I need to see you in my office I say OK what ? … She Say’s you worked over 12 hours on Saturday, no break and came back to the building late. I say yea but you didn’t tell me everything, I could not take a break or else I would have late pick ups and the map you gave me did not show the whole area you gave me to do..

Without even blinking she goes I am giving you a counseling and you have to sign here, I say so I’m getting a reprimand for helping you out and you weren’t clear on what I had to do ?

Silence filled the office alone with a blank stare she was giving me, I mean no emotion no anything just sign here..

Awww helll so I signed the friggin thing to be done with it, It was bullshit tho  not even a month in the station and screwed twice

First off I would like to thank everybody for visiting my blog, its a pleasure to have everybody’s interest and support !

With that being said … I only run the E-Mail stories that I believe to be true, trust me I know the difference.. I have been with the company over 20 years and the shit I have seen and been through is ridiculous.. And even the things I am going through now, 10 years ago I wanted to be in Management so I went through all the steps and when I actually saw what it took to be a manager I backed out.. So I also have first hand sight of what they do.. I have kept in touch with all the people I have started with over the years an they work in other parts of the Country , so they have been telling me what has been happening to them and the people they have been working with and so on..

Its your right to believe what I post, but I started this blog because I know I am not alone on what Fedex had been doing with me.. Do not get me wrong when I started with Fedex I loved the job, I enjoyed going to work and had the Fedex pride.. But when I hit my 15 years everything just changed I could not even take care of my customers anymore with out having to answer a ton of questions..

We do not have a Union so we do not have anyone to stick up for us, yea we have Human Resources but they are more for the company than for us.. I have copies of all my battles with Memphis I just can not post them right now because I really do not want them to know who I am yet.. Because of the retaliation I would face , hey I still need a job to pay the bills.. But it does not mean I have to take the Company’s shit and have them treat me than less of a person..

Me and thousands of other Fedex employees have built that company, we run around in the Rain, Sleet and Snow. We go into the Bad Areas to Deliver and Pick up packages and not to mention run the risk of having bad accidents.. We have the bulls eye on our backs..and correct the company and management fuck ups

And they sit collect the bonus checks and bark out orders and get to have lives outside the company and take care of the employee favorites.. While others like me get fucked !

I don’t know if I can change anything for the better, but I will let it be known on the good people who work hard get treated.. And the Lazy ass employees who do not even deserve a job get taken care of .. I don’t even know on how some of the couriers I work with still have a fucking job its comical.. They fuck with me but the courier that refused to deliver a medical package because she had a fucking hair appointment is beyond me

Later everybody and thank you agian

This comes from one of  our Fedex Home Del brothers in  New York State ! Its another example on what we have to deal with..

I found your site by accident. I have been a Fedex driver for a year and a half.
Before that I was in DHL, but it was enjoyable considering the managers never ride
your back. However, since I have been in this company there is nothing but
nippicking every day. I have joined FedEx home delivery in September of last year.
In the beginning everything was in the up and up. I was able to take a route that
adverage in 70 stops per day and raised it to 110 a day. Not much of an increase,
but it was my personal best. Then the sudden change happen, First I was yelled at by
both the ststion manager and the route owner about leaving packages in secure
apartment buildings. Even though during my training I was told that I can leave
packages in a secure apt building. Yet when I told that, the very man who trained me
played deaf, dumb, and stupid. Then a month later I was pulled into the office and
gotten yelled like a three year old about bad addresses. Appearently I am supposed
to use my cell phone to either call the base or the customer to get the correct
address and re-attempt the delivery. When I explain that I was never told that my
mananger told me and qoute “Don’t be f***ing stupid.” naturally this caused a bad
argument and I was sent home for 3 days with no pay.

When I returned to work I played ball and gotten no lip during the course of the
summer, my only biggest complaint is they trying to charge me for package claims.
Then in September I was actually praised for my hard work, which was a bit
refreshing. Then out of the blue I was charged $75.00 for a package claim, when I
argue about this I was told that even though the drop was good. I didn’t place a
delivery notice, so it instantly became a bad claim. So not only $75 was taken from
my pay, I lost out on my $100 monthly bonus. Then once again I played ball, door
tagging delivered and non delivered stops. Even though my supervisors did the
opposite. suddenly, I was placed in the office and both my supervisor and the
station manager was waiting for me. I was told that I have gotten one too many
claims on my route. Even though I deliver in a heavily urban area and my supervisor
tells me that I am the only driver that he gets complains about. I tell him what did
I do. I come to base, do my route and go home. I don’t chit-chat, or waste time, I
just work. Yet I still gotten belittled.

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